In the end-of-year rush, I completely missed that the
ACM Queue published my invited article on
distributed transactions in their “Research for Practice”
series. My article
summarizes three recent papers – Spanner, TAPIR, and Callas – and
discusses why they are important innovations in distributed
transactions.

I’m excited to be attending the
Rising Stars workshop at CMU in
October. From the webpage, Rising Stars “brings together the world’s
brightest women Ph.D. students, postdocs, and engineers/scientists,
for two days of scientific interactions and career-oriented
discussions aimed at navigating the early stages of careers in
academia.”

22 August 2016

The Diamond source code is now available on
github and
gitlab. Take a
look back in a few weeks for a draft of our paper to appear in
OSDI 2016.

31 July 2016

Our paper on the Diamond automated data management platform will
appear in OSDI 2016 and
our work on the Disciplined Inconsistency type system will appear at
SoCC 2016.

16 May 2016

I just attended the NCWIT Conference on Women and IT to receive
honorable mention for the NCWIT Collegiate
Award. It
was great to see what people in positions of more power than me are
doing to increase diversity in computer science.

28 March 2016

Crosscut has a great article highlighting CSE’s
efforts to bring more women into computer science and keep them there.

11 January 2016

After much clean-up, the TAPIR codebase is available! Check it out on
github. The repo also includes
implementations of Viewstamped Replication and conventional two-phase
commit with both optimistic concurrency control and strict two-phase
locking.

TAPIR has been in the news recently!
GeekWire
featured us as runners-up for the Madrona Prize. Madrona awards this
prize annually at the
UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting
to to the research projects with the most start-up potential. In
other news,
the morning paper blog
summarizes our work for Twitter readers.

I recently co-chaired the Symposium on Potentially Computer Science
(PoCSci ‘15). As many people know, PoCSci is the premier venue for
fake computer science research, and there was a lot of exciting work
presented this year, especially from our
keynote speaker. More on the
event at the
CSE News.

11 May 2015

I recently organized a mini-conference at CSE in the spirit of the
annual Grace Hopper Conference as a celebration of women in the
department. Ed has some of the background on how the event came to be
on the
CSE News.

Microsoft Research has just named me a 2015
Ph.D. Fellow. Thanks
to Microsoft for their support of Ph.D. students! As usual, Ed has
more to say on the CSE
news.

09 January 2015

On Friday, the department held a party celebrating graduate counselor,
Lindsay Michimoto. Lindsay has been with the department for 15 years,
and in that time has processed 14,245 applications to the
Ph.D. program (including mine twice!) and advised 602
Ph.D. students. She is definitely one of the very unique features of
CSE and is probably responsible for me going to grad school at all.

A few PhD students (not me!) sang a musical number dedicated to
Lindsay’s many years of listening to complaining grad students. More
on the event and Lindsay on the CSE
News.

09 January 2015

The CSE Symposium featured 18 students from around the department
giving high-level overviews of their research. I gave a talk on
Operating Systems Services for Modern Applications covering Sapphire,
Agate and Diamond.

I will be giving a talk at MSR Redmond on
Sapphire on November 18th and a
talk at Amazon on TAPIR on November 20th. For any of
my friends at MSR or Amazon that will be around, I would love to catch
up and chat about either project!

23 October 2014

I gave a talk on Sapphire at the annual Seattle ARCS luncheon. Always nice to see all of the sponsors coming out in support of the sciences!

23 October 2014

Arrakis wins the Madrona prize during UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Research Day and is featured on GeekWire.

08 October 2014

The systems lab girls take OSDI 2014!

06 October 2014

Arrakis wins the best paper award at OSDI and I gave my talk on Sapphire today! See video of my talk.

I presented a poster on Sapphire at the UW Industrial Affiliates meeting.

19 September 2013

I presented my research to the National Science
Board at their annual meeting. We were able
to discuss with the board the direction of the NSF fellowship and
funding for the sciences.

09 July 2013

I hung out with the girls of Project
Splash
for lunch. Project Splash is a summer camp for high school girls
interested in computer science, where they get to build underwater
robots. Looked like a lot of fun!